Has virtualization caused any issues in your organization that are not technical?
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Has virtualization caused any issues in your organization that are not technical?
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Has virtualization caused any issues in your organization that are not technical? How has it affected things like Change Control, Support, and integration with existing staff?

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ASKED: Apr 28 2009  1:42 PM GMT
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Absolutely.
The first problem is why bother with virtualization.
Then you get to who is going to manage it. In our case, we hired a new guy.
Now we are trying to figure out where does one area of responsibility end, and the other begin. ESX | OS | Storage | Netoworking? Or do all of these now have to be handled by the same sys admins?
Last Answered: Aug 23 2009  9:53 PM GMT by Nnf97   3340 pts.
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Mshen   23535 pts.  |   Apr 28 2009  11:08PM GMT

We are not experience any negative issues. Since we’ve purchased a virtualization server, we are focusing less on deployment costs and server provisioning which cuts down our time to production.

 

Sonotsky   660 pts.  |   Aug 24 2009  1:29PM GMT

The only negative issues I’ve experienced are software licensing and politics.

Software licensing is here, but there’s really two prongs to the issue: Understanding how licensing changes when virtualized (Windows, Oracle, etc.) and software that uses licenses that are tied to physical host hash strings. These can be particularly nasty if doing VMotion/Live Migration.

Politics is a whole other discussion. There will almost always be someone within the adminisphere who has a negative opinion on virtualization, be it for security or reliability reasons, or due to a past negative experience, whether due to inadequately-trained personnel or less-robust versions of the hypervisor. These people are always the hard sell, and in some cases you have to be a little under-handed, and implement virtualization on a small scale to prove the concept. At least, that’s how it’s worked for me. :)

 
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